If there were one word to characterise these elections, it was crafted by Melenchon and is “dégagisme”, or cleaning-out.
In 2012, then-minister Cécile Duflot was cat-called in parliament. Last week, the dress she wore made a comeback in a new campaign.
"Our French members... gave a variety of candidates running in the upcoming parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18 the chance to embrace our movement’s aims."
The results will tell us whether or not we are witnessing a historical shake-up of the French political scene. Meanwhile, pragmatism is what is needed both in Berlin and Paris.
The marginalisation of Roma in France has led to communities being held back from political life, and manifested itself in some very strange ways.
“Enthusiasm for his victory is drawing investment into European equities. And French private sector employment has just reached a post-crisis high, giving a boost to wages.”
We're living in a new era of proxy warfare, where multiple powers fund local proxies with disastrous consequences. We need to break the cycle.
Britain for one is quite unprepared for the ultimate project of the new French president: the restoration of Franco-German leadership in Europe.
Jeremy Corbyn consistently voted against wars of choice that Britain could have refrained from taking part in, now regarded as strategic failures, promoting, not reducing, international terrorism.
Speculation about a National Front victory in the recent presidental elections was ill-founded, as is the chorus of commentators warning of a Le Pen success in 2022.
The French have used their democracy to give this young man in an old country a chance to experiment with a new type of politics. But have we tried everything?
